Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 689
After departing from Jinan, the emperor crossed Mount Tai along the Shahe River Valley and arrived in Tai'an, where he offered sacrifices to Mount Tai, received the scholars and the people, and asked the jurisprudence to accept complaints from the people. He quickly resolved some cases and won the praise of countless people. Next, turn to the dangerous river, a tributary of the Si River, and reach Qufu in the south.

In Qufu, the emperor first paid homage to the Shaohao Mausoleum, and then went to the Confucius Temple.

Qufu Confucian Mansion, the emperor summoned the priests of the Confucian family, doctors of the Five Classics, and the patriarchs of various sects, etc., and made a request to Kong Yanzhi, the fourth generation of Yansheng Gong No. It was planned together with the Confucian Temple and the Confucian Forest, and became a Confucian holy place, which was managed by officials sent by the imperial court.

The emperor respected Confucius very much.

So I plan to plan and protect this Confucian holy land.

Kong Yanzhi sat there sickly, terrified. He never expected that the inheritance of the Kong family for dozens of generations would be broken when it came to him.

Although now I also regret that I shouldn't have persuaded Li Zicheng and Dorgon to advance, but I didn't regret taking the medicine, not to mention that the Kong family used to be like this, and the emperors of all dynasties have no reason to blame.

But this one insisted on being so harsh. Speaking of which, the Kong family and Prince Lu's Mansion in Yanzhou were neighbors for more than 200 years, and they were in-laws for more than ten generations.

But the emperor said that if he turned his face, he would turn his face.

I don't spare any sympathy.

Before cutting down the Duke of Yansheng, he was only given the hereditary position of a seventh-rank enshrined officer and a doctor of the Five Classics. Later, he wanted to take over all the land of the Confucian Mansion, leaving him only [-] acres, [-] acres per quarter, and the rest. To take away.

This blow made Kong Yanzhi unable to afford it.

Shocked and frightened, I am ashamed of my ancestors.

But who would have known that when the emperor came now, he would take away the Confucian mansion.

The Confucian Temple has a long history. In the second year after the death of Confucius, it was rebuilt by Duke Ai of Lu on the basis of the former residence of Confucius. It has been continuously expanded and renovated in various dynasties, especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and its scale has become larger and larger.

During Song Zhenzong's time, 360 halls and verandahs were built at one time, and it was rebuilt during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty. It took five years and cost 15 taels of silver.

Now it covers an area of ​​more than 600 acres of huge buildings.

The Confucian mansion is the original Yanshenggong mansion, and it is also the mansion where the eldest grandson of Confucius lived. It covers an area of ​​240 mu.

In addition, there is Konglin, which is the cemetery dedicated to the Kong family. The perimeter of the forest wall is 2 miles, and there are more than 3000 ancient trees inside. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, there were [-] hectares of land. By this time, it had expanded to more than [-] mu. , more than [-] trees in the forest.

Sankong is a huge urban garden.

Now that the emperor visits the Confucian temple to offer sacrifices to Confucius, the Confucian family is still excited about it, thinking that the emperor will change his mind, but who knows that he will take away the three Confucius.

The reason for the emperor was that Confucius was a sage, and all the dynasties respected Confucius, and they all respected the sages, not the family members of Confucius.Besides, the performance of the Kong family in recent years has not been good.

The emperor directly called Ma Jixiang, the commander of Jinyiwei, and brought two large boxes to Kong Yanzhi, which were full of investigation files, all of which were the crimes of the Confucian family's occupation of fields and oppression of the people over the years, and even many dirty and insidious crimes in the Confucian mansion. Dirty things.

There are many problems.

If the emperor really wants to pursue it seriously, the Kong family will not only lose their reputation, but also have serious consequences.

Now the emperor is still polite to the Kong family.

It was proposed that the three Kongs should be under the jurisdiction of officials sent by the imperial court, and the Kong family in the Confucius mansion would also move away. Of course, the descendants of the Kong family can still be buried in Konglin in the future.

For those members of the Kong family who committed crimes, the emperor was willing to lenient the net and not investigate further, but he wanted to arrange for them to immigrate, and they would emigrate to Taiwan, Liaodong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Gansu, Sichuan, Hainan and other places. The emperor said it was for them. The opportunity to turn over a new leaf is also to spread the knowledge of Confucius.

They are immigrants, not exiles, nor editors.

The imperial court will take back the ten mu of land originally granted to them. In the frontier land, each family will be given one hundred mu of wasteland for them to reclaim.

The restriction on them is that they are not allowed to move away from the frontier within three generations.

The emperor said it was a small punishment.

Kong Yanzhi almost died in shock.

The emperor also proposed to give Kong Yanzhi a hundred gardens of land on the south bank of the Yihe River, and let the Kong family build a new Confucius residence here. Power is called government.The new Confucian house will be given blueprints by the imperial court, and they will build them according to the blueprints, so that they will not violate the regulations.

The two big boxes of files involved nearly half of the Kong clan in Qufu, and they had to be moved out this time.Of course, if it is not involved but voluntarily immigrates to the frontier, the imperial court will also support it and give additional rewards, such as rewarding a farm cattle after migration.

Illegal activities such as encroaching on fields, houses, mines, workshops, and usury involved in these two boxes must be corrected.

The emperor will send Jinyiwei and Dongchang to Qufu to handle the case.

Kong Yanzhi pleaded guilty in fear, hoping that the emperor would treat the Kong family leniently for the sake of a saint.

"It's been 2000 years, all dynasties have treated the Confucian family leniently, but you holy descendants are very sorry for your ancestors. My treatment today is still very lenient. I hope you will take care of yourself."

"Leniency won't last forever, this is the last time."

"Although the fields and house forests have been taken away, I haven't touched the floating wealth accumulated by your Kong family in the past, and you can still live well with these.

Read the sage books left by your ancestors carefully, even if you are in the countryside, you should be a village sage. "

The emperor left Qufu on the same day, leaving only Jinyiwei and Dongchang stationed, and quickly took over Sankong. Even Qufu county magistrate, the emperor also specially appointed Du Yinxi's son Du Shiming as the magistrate. Shiming's original name was Sun Ji, Du Yinxi When Xi raised troops in Changsha, he specially changed his son’s name to Shiming and his nephew’s to Zhengming to show his loyalty to Daming. Du Shiming had been by Zhu Yihai’s side for several years, and he was a very upright and capable young man. Jinshi in the general examination is now a fifth-rank Beijing post. The emperor asked him to come to Qufu to serve as a county magistrate, which shows the importance he attaches to Qufu.

The emperor drove along Surabaya to his hometown in Yanzhou.

Wang Zhiren broke through the city here, and after slaughtering the Tartars, the court sent officials to recover with all their strength, and now he has recovered a bit of vitality, and Zhu Yihai came back after four years.

At the beginning, he led the Northern Expedition and hit the city, but this time he was finally able to enter the city.

In Yanzhou City, the main street has almost been restored, and the shops have started to open, but it is not very lively.Yanzhou was not as good as Xuzhou, Jining, Linqing, Liaocheng, etc., and it deviated from the canal, which made it not prosperous enough. After two massacres of the city, it became even more depressed.

Due to the diversion of the Yellow River and the blockage of the canal, Yanzhou became more and more depressed.

Zhu Yihai went to Prince Lu's Mansion. The palace city was very dilapidated. The Tartars once changed it into a full city, and it was demolished in a mess.

According to his memory, he led his soldiers to the back of a hall in the palace and asked people to dig it.

Soon they dug into an underground secret room, which contained many gold and silver treasures, and even some books and edicts from the Lu Palace.Zhu Yihai led his men to dug seven secret chambers, unearthed millions of silver ingots, many copper coins, and gold and jewelry worth 300 million.

These were all buried by his elder brother Zhu Yipai, the king of Lu, who was unwilling to reward the soldiers who defended the city. In the end, the city broke down and committed suicide. The treasures were also buried here for many years.

When Zhu Yihai fled south, he didn't touch these things.

After several years, he dug them out one by one.

"This Prince Lu's mansion, simply repair it, and treat it as my palace. It doesn't need to cost much, just restore it to its original appearance."

For this palace, Zhu Yihai has many related memories in his mind.

"Do you remember this place?"

Zhu Yihai asked the brothers King Qin and King Han who were accompanying them.

"I remember." The two brothers still remember their home here, especially the courtyard where Zhu Yihai lived, and they have a deep memory.

Prince Lu's Mansion is quite large, it is a royal city, and the palaces in various places are actually of the same standard, but the rich and the poor are different in different places, and the final repairs are slightly different.

Ruan Dacheng suggested upgrading Yanzhou Mansion, such as Huguang Zhongxiang when Emperor Jiajing was in the feudal clan, which was later called Chengtian Mansion and set up the Xingdu Left-behind Division.

"This is the land of Your Majesty's Longxing, it can be called Longxing Mansion."

"It may also be called Rising Dragon Mansion, the Land of Dragon Rising."

After Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, he set his hometown Fengyang as the central capital.

However, Zhu Yihai was not very interested in this. Although Yanzhou was one of the ancient Kyushu states, it had long since fallen by the wayside, and no matter whether it was transportation or economy, it was no longer so important.

"The name Yanzhou is pretty good. There is no need to change it. In terms of economy and transportation, Yanzhou is not as good as Jining or Xuzhou next to it."

Not only was Zhu Yihai not promoted to Yanzhou, but he also split Yanzhou in the end.

On the land east of the old course of the Yellow River, west of the canal, and south of the new Yellow River channel, a new Caozhou Prefecture will be established. Feixian County and Yizhou in the southeast will be split off to form Yizhou Prefecture, and Dongping Prefecture in the north will be assigned to the new one. Tai'an Mansion was set up, and Shouzhang, Yanggu, Chaocheng, and Fan County to the north of Xinhe Road were assigned to Dongchang Mansion.

The southwest is bounded by Weishan Lake and the canal, and the west is Guixin, which is divided into Xuzhou Prefecture in Shandong.

Only Hudong Xia Town, which originally belonged to Xuzhou, was allocated to Yanzhou.

Yanzhou Prefecture shrank in half.

"Your Majesty, great victory!"

Zhu Yihai took the two princes and searched for memories in the courtyard where they used to live. Shen Ruru, Minister of the Ministry of War, came to report the victory, his face full of joy.

"Great victory, Yingzhou has been won, thousands of prisoners have been killed, more than ten thousand prisoners, our army casualties are only a few hundred."

Hearing that tens of thousands of prisoners were captured, Zhu Yihai was a little surprised. Zheng Zunqian, the coach, acted a bit radically, and this time he was able to keep tens of thousands of captives.

"Remember Dudu Zheng's great service!"

"Dudu Zheng has already led the victorious army to Nanyang, and now Governor Chen is in Yingzhou to deal with the aftermath."

"Nanyang," Zhu Yihai read a few words, "Is there any information about Zhongzhong? Did Wu Sangui send troops?"

"I haven't received any information from the Guanzhong Army yet, but even if Wu Sangui leaves Shaanxi, His Majesty doesn't have to worry."

"It's better to be more cautious. Hurry up and send an order to Zheng Zunqian, tell him to be careful, don't underestimate the enemy and rush forward, even if Wu Sangui rushes to help Nanyang, it doesn't matter, we must be steady, and we must beware of their risk of death."

Nowadays, the equipment of the imperial camp of the Ming army is indeed getting better and better, and the morale is also high, but there is no absolute thing about fighting. Even when Li Zicheng and others were just rogues who were not in the limelight, they still severely damaged the elite officers and soldiers of the imperial court.

There are many things that capsize in the gutter.

The more urgent the more accidents are likely to happen.

"Let him rest in Zhumadian first, and don't rush into Nanyang Basin. I am leading troops to Luoyang. When the time comes, I will lead the troops south to Lushan in Ruzhou. We will form a pincer-shaped offensive with two troops. You can stay back."

If the Qing court still doesn't fight, then Zhu Yihai can naturally sweep them all the way.

But if the Qing government was going to do their best and even mobilize Wu Sangui to come out to help, then Zhu Yihai would not be in a hurry to go to Nanyang.

The two legions were close together, and Li Chixin, Zhu Shengli, and Jin Shenghuan's tribes in the south were restrained. Zhu Yihai was completely invincible. Although Wu Sangui was strong, his soldiers were short of food and equipment. Can't wait.

This is not the beginning of the rise of the army a few years ago.

(End of this chapter)